Criminal incompetence at the FAA

"Richard Hertz" writes:

Um, I have run MS Oses successfully for months without failure - actually, I
never got to test it fully as power outages crashed it. It is not the OS
many times, rather the poor software developers who write for the OS. If
they write drivers or other kernel stuff the OS is compromised.

Um, one of the jobs of an Operating System for the last 20-30 years
has been to protect the OS, and thus other processes, from poor or
even malicious software. Other OSs accomplish this quite well...but
not Windows.

Bob Fry writes:

"Richard Hertz" writes:

Um, I have run MS Oses successfully for months without failure - actually, I
never got to test it fully as power outages crashed it. It is not the OS
many times, rather the poor software developers who write for the OS. If
they write drivers or other kernel stuff the OS is compromised.

Um, one of the jobs of an Operating System for the last 20-30 years
has been to protect the OS, and thus other processes, from poor or
even malicious software. Other OSs accomplish this quite well...but
not Windows.

Well, stuff running in kernel mode will trump whatever mechanisms
the OS has to protect itself.

But that's OK, Windows is easily crashed with user mode stuff.

-jav